pp 241-43. Government of Bombay forward report by the Municipal Commissioner regarding the analyses of potable waters in Bombay, carried out on the drinking water wells believed to have been the source of the 1870 cholera epidemic. Encloses copy of Dr L B Lyon's analysis [Chemical Analyser, Bombay].
p 39. J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, reports on the unsuitability of Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] for a fully water-based sewage system, and recommends that Umballa be used as a test-case.
pp 73-76. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Government of India, plus: report by J G French, Health Officer at the Port of Calcutta; and extract from a report on the state of the river bank, with special reference to the outbreak of cholera on board the steam ship Viceroy, b...
pp 135-39. Government of Bengal forward two reports regarding the conservancy, sanitation and cholera outbreaks in the areas surrounding the river Hooghly: by J F Beatson, Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, and Surgeon-Major J Ewart, Surgeon Superintendent of the Presidency General Hospi...
pp 41-61. Correspondence between the Government of Bengal and the Military Department regarding the duties and responsibilities of civil officers in regard to the working of lock hospitals in Cantonments.
pp 561-64. Government of India forward previous telegrams and correspondence regarding cholera outbreaks along the river Indus and the suggested establishment of a quarantine at Attock, Punjab, and draw attention to the measures to be adopted on the outbreak of cholera and smallpox.
pp 417-33. Contains the following reports: S C Amesbury, Surgeon Major, 6th Native Infantry Lucknow. Report on the treatment of cases of herpes zaster 841 D; and scabies No. 894. G M Govan, Surgeon Major, 3rd Goorkha Regiment, Civil Surgeon, Almorah. Describes a case of leprosy apprently cured...
Correspondence regarding the proposed trials of quinetum and cinchonidine, with opinion of G Smith, Surgeon General, Indian Medical Department, regarding the substitution of sulphate of cinchonidine for sulphate of quinine.
pp 213-17. Brigadier-General F A W Loch, Political Resident at Aden, submits draft rules for medical inspection and quarantine, as he considers applicable to Aden. Plus comment thereon by the Government of India regarding the inappropriate nature of the rules, requesting that Aden submit to the s...